2025
Laszlo, S., C. de Miranda, F. Grimard, T. Insfrán, T. Kokossou, L. Morínigo, J. Warnick. 2025. "Norm shifting interventions and beliefs about gender norms in Paraguay” Economic Development and Cultural Change. Vol 73 (4) [Paper]
Clark, Shelley, and Zoe Levy. 2025. “Sterilization, Infecundity, and Reproductive Autonomy in Rural, Suburban, and Urban America: Results from a National Survey” Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 57:72-84 [Paper]
Clark, Shelley and Khandys Agnant. 2025. “Charting New Paths to Adulthood in the Global South” Population and Development Review, 51(1): 181-211 [Paper]
2024
Laszlo, S., M. F. Majid, and L. Renée. 2024. "Conditional Cash Transfers and Women's Reproductive Choices'' Health Economics Vol. 33(2): 204-228 [Paper]
Yarger, Jennifer and Sarah R. Brauner-Otto. 2024. “Women’s Work Characteristics and Fertility Expectations” Population Research and Policy Review 43(26).[Paper]
Brooks, Matthew, and Shelley Clark. 2024. “Early Family Formation, Selective Migration, and Childhood Conditions in Rural America.” Rural Sociology, 89(2): 281-310 [Paper]
Clark, Shelley, Matthew Brooks, Ann-Marie Helou, and Rachel Margolis. 2024. “Are Rural Areas Holdouts in the Second Demographic Transition?: Evidence from the U.S. and Canada.” Demography, 61(2): 541–568 [Paper]
Clark, Shelley, Madeleine Henderson, and Caroline Kabiru. 2024. “Single Motherhood and Stress in a Kenyan Slum: The Importance of Paternal and Kin Support.” Journal of Family Issues, 45(1): 74-102. [Paper]
2023
Doneys, P., Kusakabe, K., Chatterjee, J. S., Tun, S. M., Myint, K. C. , and F. Grimard. 2023. “Pathways to Politics for Women Parliamentarians in Myanmar.” Journal of Asian and African Studies Vol. 59.(5) [Paper]
Brauner-Otto, Sarah R., Chih-lan Winnie Yang, and Ka U Ng. 2023. “Women’s Employment Trajectories in a Low-Income Setting: Stratification and Change in Nepal.” Demographic Research 29(8): 157-200.[Paper]
Axinn, William G., Mira D. Vale, and Sarah R. Brauner-Otto. 2023. “Student reports of attendance at programs to reduce campus sexual assault and harassment.” Journal of American College Health 71(2): 543-553[Paper]
2022
A. Abdu, G. S. Marquis, E. K. Colecraft, N. D. Dodoo, F. Grimard. 2022. “The Association of Women's Participation in Farmer-Based Organizations with Female and Male Empowerment and its Implication for Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Interventions in Rural Ghana”, Current Developments in Nutrition, Vol. 6(9). [Paper]
A. Abdu , E. K. Colecraft, F Grimard. G. S. Marquis, 2022. “Collective Empowerment and Influential Group Membership Matter for Household Food Security”, Current Developments in Nutrition, Vol. 6 (Suppl. 1).
Alcázar, L. and S. Laszlo. 2022. "La importancia de mejorar la oferta de cuidado diurno en un Perú pospandémico (The case for enhanced childcare provision in a post-pandemic Peru)." Chapter 3.B. in GRADE El Perú pendiente: ensayos para un desarrollo con bienestar. Lima: GRADE (Pages 203-235)
Brauner-Otto, Sarah R., Sarah Baird, and Dirgha Ghimire. 2022. “Women’s Employment and Children’s Education: Longitudinal evidence from Nepal.” Social Science Research 103 (102669). (PMCID: PMC8861448)[Paper]
Cotton, Cassandra, Shelley Clark, and Sangeetha Madhavan. 2022. “One Hand Does Not Bring Up a Child:” Child Fostering among Single Mothers in Nairobi Slums.” Demographic Research, 46: 865-904. [Paper]
Clark, Shelley, Sam Harper, and Bruce Weber. 2022. “Growing Up in Rural America.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 8(3): 1-47. [Paper]
Clark, Shelley, Elizabeth Lawrence, and Shannon Monnat. 2022. “Support from Adult Children and Parental Health in Rural America.” Journal of Rural Social Science, 37(1): Article 2, 1-30 [Paper]
2021
Brauner-Otto, Sarah R. 2021. “Housing and Fertility: A macro-level, multi-country investigation, 1993-2017.” Housing Studies 38(4): 569-596.[Paper]
Clark, Shelley. 2021.“A Life Course Perspective on BMI in Rural America.” Health & Place, 69(102562): 1-9. [Paper]
Madhavan, Sangeetha, Shelley Clark, and Sara Schmidt. 2021. “Single Mothers Coping with Food Insecurity in a Nairobi Slum.” Urban Studies, 58(13):2703–2720. [Paper]
Pugliese, Maude, Céline Le Bourdais, and Shelley Clark. 2021. "Credit Card Debt and the Provision of Financial Support to Kin in the US." Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 42(4):616-632. [Paper]
Smith-Greenaway, Emily, Alissa Koski, and Shelley Clark. 2021. “Women's Marital Experiences Following Premarital Fertility in Sub‐Saharan Africa.” Journal of Marriage and Family, 83(2): 394-408. [Paper]
Koski, Alissa, and Shelley Clark. 2021. “Child Marriage in Canada between 2000 and 2018.” Population and Development Review, 47(1): 57-78. [Paper]
Clark, Shelley, Midanna De Almada, Caroline W Kabiru, Stella Muthuri, and Milka Wanjohi. 2021. “Balancing Paid Work and Child Care in a Slum of Nairobi, Kenya: The Case for Center-Based Child Care.” Journal of Family Studies, 27(1): 93-111. [Paper]
2020
Laszlo, S., K. Grantham, E. Oskay, T. Zhang. 2020. "Grappling with the Challenges of Measuring Women's Economic Empowerment'' World Development Vol. 132. Article 104959. [Paper].
Clark, S., C. Kabiru, S. Laszlo and S. Muthuri. 2019. "The Impact of Childcare on Poor Urban Women’s Economic Empowerment in Africa" Demography Vol. 56(4): 1247-1272. (Previous title: "Can Subsidized Early Child Care Promote Women's Employment? Evidence from a Slum Settlement in Africa") [GrOW Working Paper Version] [Policy Brief] [Policy In Action]
Brauner-Otto, Sarah R. and Lisa D. Pearce. 2020. “Gendered Expressions of Parental Religiosity, Associated Attitudes toward Marriage, and the Timing of Children’s Marriages.” Sociology of Religion 81(4) 413-438.[Paper]
Brauner-Otto, Sarah R., William G. Axinn, and Dirgha J. Ghimire. 2020. “Parents’ Marital Quality and Children’s Transition to Adulthood.” Demography 57: 195-220. (PMCID: PMC2978908)[Paper]
Clark, Shelley, Cassandra Cotton, Rachel Margolis, and Hans-Peter Kohler. 2020. “The Psychological Benefits of Marriage and Children in Rural Malawi.” Studies in Family Planning, 51(3): 251-272 [Paper]
2019
F. Grimard and M. Wijesiri. 2019. "Microfinance programs and women’s empowerment: new evidence from rural middle hills of Nepal" , in Thomsen, P., M, Hansen and A. Lindgreen (Eds) Business and Development Studies: Issues and Perspectives Routledge 2019.
Brauner-Otto, Sarah R., Sarah Baird, and Dirgha Ghimire. 2019. “Maternal Employment and Child Health in Nepal: The importance of job type and timing across the child’s first five years.” Social Science & Medicine 224: 94-105.(PMCID: PMC6532054.) [Paper]
Clark, Shelley, Caroline W Kabiru, Sonia Laszlo, and Stella Muthuri. 2019. “The Impact of Childcare on Poor Urban Women’s Economic Empowerment in Africa.” Demography, 56:1247–1272 [Paper]
2018
Smith-Greenaway, Emily, Sarah R. Brauner-Otto, and William G. Axinn. 2018. “The Education of Adult Children and Parental Mortality.” Social Science Research 76: 157-168.[Paper]
Brauner-Otto, Sarah R. and Claudia Geist. 2018. “Uncertainty, Doubts, and Delays: Economic context and fertility expectations among young Americans.” Journal of Family and Economic Issues. 39(1): 88-102.[Paper]
Madhavan, Sangeetha, Shelley Clark, and Yuko Hara. 2018. “Gendered Emotional Support and Women’s Well-Being in a Low-Income Urban African Setting.” Gender & Society, 32(6): 837-859. [Paper]
Clark, Shelley, Sangeetha Madhavan, and Caroline Kabiru. 2018. “Kin Support and Child Health: Investigating Two Approaches in an African Slum.” Social Science Research, 76: 105-119. [Paper]
Clark, Shelley, Marianne Paul, Richmond Aryeetey, and Grace Marquis. 2018. “An Assets-Based Approach to Promoting Girls’ Financial Literacy, Savings, and Education.” Journal of Adolescence, 68: 94-104. [Paper]
Madhavan, Sangeetha, Donatien Beguy, and Shelley Clark. 2018. “Measuring Extended Families over Time in Informal Settlements in Nairobi, Kenya: Retention and Data Consistency in a Two-Round Survey.” Demographic Research, 38: 1339-1358 [Paper]
Madhavan, Sangeetha, Shelley Clark, Malcolm Araos, and Donatien Beguy. 2018. “Distance or Location?: How the Geographic Distribution of Kin Networks Shapes Support Given to Single Mothers in Urban Kenya.” The Geographical Journal, 184(1):75–88. [Paper]
Smith-Greenaway, Emily, and Shelley Clark. 2018. “Women’s Marriage Behavior following a Premarital Birth in Sub-Saharan Africa.” Journal of Marriage and Family, 80(1): 256–270. [Paper]
2017
F. Grimard, F. Myamba and P. Tibandebage. 2017. "Assessment of Women’s Empowerment in the Productive Social Safety Net Program in Tanzania: Qualitative Findings on the Five Domains of Empowerment", March 2017.
F. Grimard and F. Myamba. 2017. "Assessing the impact of cash transfer programs on women’s empowerment in Tanzania: A preliminary analysis of the baseline data using the WEAI methodology", June 2017
Brauner-Otto, Sarah R. and William G. Axinn. 2017. “Natural resource collection and desired family size: A longitudinal test of environment-population theories.” Population and Environment 38(4): 381-406.[Paper]
Geist, Claudia and Sarah R. Brauner-Otto. 2017. “Constrained Intentions: Individual Economic Resources, Regional Context, and Fertility Expectations in Germany.” Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World 3:1-17 [Paper]
2016
Rindfuss, Ronald R., Minja Kim Choe, and Sarah R. Brauner-Otto. 2016. “The Emergence of Two Distinct Fertility Regimes in Economically Advanced Countries” Population Research and Policy Review 35(3): 287-304.[Paper]
2015
Clark, Shelley and Sarah R. Brauner-Otto. 2015. “Divorce in Sub-Saharan Africa: Are Unions Becoming Less Stable?” Population and Development Review 41(4): 583-605 [Paper]
Brauner-Otto, Sarah R. 2015. “Health Services, Attitudes, and Fertility Limitation.” International Journal of Sociology 45(1): 24-43.[Paper]
Pearce, Lisa D., Sarah R. Brauner-Otto, and Yingchun Ji. 2015. “Explaining Religious Differentials in Family Size Preferences: Evidence from Nepal in 1996.” Population Studies 65(1): 23-37.[Paper]
Baker, Ashley A. and Sarah R. Brauner-Otto. 2015. “My Friend is Gay, But…The Effects of Social Contact on Christian Evangelicals’ Beliefs About Gays and Lesbians.” Review of Religious Research 57(2): 239-268.[Paper]
2014
F. Grimard and S. Laszlo. 2014. "Long-Term Effects of Civil Conflict on Women’s Health Outcomes in Peru",World Development 54(0): 139-155, 2014.[Paper]
Brauner-Otto, Sarah R. 2014. “Environmental Quality and Fertility: The Effects of Plant Density, Species Richness, and Plant Diversity on Fertility Limitation.” Population and Environment. 36(1): 1-31. (PMCID: PMC4290375.)
Yarger, Jennifer and Sarah R. Brauner-Otto. 2014. “Nonfamily Experience and Receipt of Personal Care in a Rapidly Changing Context.” Ageing & Society 34(1): 106-128. (PMCID: PMC4080634)
2013
Brauner-Otto, Sarah R. 2013. “Attitudes about Children and Fertility Limitation Behavior.” Population Research and Policy Review 32(1): 1-24. (PMCID: PMC3671613)
2012
Brauner-Otto, Sarah R. 2012. “Schools, Their Spatial Distribution and Characteristics, and Fertility Limitation.” Rural Sociology 77(3): 321-354. (PMCID: PMC3498490.)
Brauner-Otto, Sarah R., Jennifer Yarger, and Joyce Abma. 2012. “Does it Matter How You Ask? Question Wording and Males’ Reporting of Contraceptive Use at Last Sex.” Social Science Research 41(5): 1028-1036. (PMCID: PMC3461179)
2011
F. Grimard and G. Grantham. 2011. “Female Labour Force Participation in Nineteenth-Century France and the 1851 Census of Population: a Quantitative Analysis”, in Laura Cruz and Joel Mokyr (eds.), The Birth of Modern Europe, Brill Academic Publishers, 2011.
2010
F. Grimard, S. Laszlo and W. Lim. 2010. “Health, aging and childhood socio-economic conditions in Mexico”,Journal of Health Economics, Volume 29, Issue 5, September 2010, Pages 630-640[Paper]
Brauner-Otto, Sarah R. and William G. Axinn. 2010. “Parental Family Experiences, the Timing of First Sex, and Contraception.” Social Science Research 39(6): 875-893. (PMID: 21079724)
2009
Brauner-Otto, Sarah R. 2009. “Schools, Schooling, and Children’s Support of Their Aging Parents.” Ageing & Society 29(7): 1015-39. (PMCID: PMC2801906)
2008
Rindfuss, Ronald R. and Sarah R. Brauner-Otto. 2008. “Institutions and the Transition to Adulthood: Implications for fertility tempo in low fertility settings.” Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 57-87. (PMCID: PMC2901179)
2007
Brauner-Otto, Sarah R., William G. Axinn, and Dirgha J. Ghimire. 2007. “The Spread of Health Services and Fertility Transition.” Demography 44(4): 747-70. [Paper]
2000
F. Grimard and N. Ilahi. 2000. “Public Infrastructure and Private Costs: Water Supply and Time Allocation of Women in Rural Pakistan”, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Vol. 49, No. 1, October 2000, pp.45-76 [Paper]